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I’m so excited for the AI witch hunts", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2026/07/23/pangram-in-substack-im-so-excited-for-the-ai-witch-hunts/", "published_at": "2026-07-23T01:42:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08772-86e3-7079-83af-0224f0f03b28", "title": "On the matter of Greek erasure in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2026/07/21/on-the-matter-of-greek-erasure-in-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey/", "published_at": "2026-07-21T11:50:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08772-86e3-7079-83af-0224f12e9edb", "title": "July 2026: Lestat, OpenCode and the art of resting", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2026/07/09/july-2026-lestat-opencode-and-the-art-of-resting/", "published_at": "2026-07-09T04:44:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08772-86e3-7079-83af-0224f170db03", "title": "The Last Generation of ‘Bananas’? How Malaysian Chinese Identity Is Transforming", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/29/the-last-generation-of-bananas-how-malaysian-chinese-identity-is-transforming/", "published_at": "2026-06-29T11:32:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08772-86e3-7079-83af-0224f1fd45d8", "title": "The key to my successful weekly planning system: Time blocking with Google Calendar and Google Tasks", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/20/the-key-to-my-successful-weekly-planning-system-time-blocking-with-google-calendar-and-google-tasks/", "published_at": "2026-06-20T12:26:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08772-86e3-7079-83af-0224f288eb99", "title": "Substack writers, you need a website!", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/", "published_at": "2026-06-10T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08772-86e3-7079-83af-0224f30aeb36", "title": "Linkblog: Dwelling on the Internet", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/04/linkblog-dwelling-on-internet/", "published_at": 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burned out", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2025/01/20/i-am-social-media-burned-out/", "published_at": "2025-01-20T09:46:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c525-58f7-72ea-b6ed-2ffa67c2adfc", "title": "Weekend Tales #8: My favourite things of 2024", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/12/31/weekend-tales-8-my-favourite-things-of-2024/", "published_at": "2024-12-31T09:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c525-58f7-72ea-b6ed-2ffa68001be7", "title": "My experience ‘going paid’ on Subastack in 2024", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/12/28/my-experience-going-paid-on-subastack-in-2024/", "published_at": "2024-12-28T09:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c525-58f7-72ea-b6ed-2ffa68009218", "title": "Weekend Tales #7: Year ends and bodice rippers in the desert", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/10/05/4825/", "published_at": "2024-10-05T10:40:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb07dc439c6", "title": "I love Malaysia. I also resent it.", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/09/17/i-love-malaysia-i-also-resent-it/", "published_at": "2024-09-17T06:21:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb07e8485ae", "title": "5 more reads from Asia", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/09/07/4721/", "published_at": "2024-09-07T00:42:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb07ee42112", "title": "Malaysians stunned by Kuala Lumpur sinkhole", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/08/29/malaysians-stunned-by-kuala-lumpur-sinkhole/", "published_at": "2024-08-29T10:13:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb07f517bc6", "title": "That time when I lived in a haunted house", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/08/20/that-time-when-i-lived-in-a-haunted-house/", "published_at": "2024-08-20T03:22:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb07f78aede", "title": "The circle of competence and our information diet", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/08/07/the-circle-of-competence-and-our-information-diet/", "published_at": "2024-08-07T08:05:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb080095f54", "title": "What’s happening in Britain?", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/08/07/whats-happening-in-britain/", "published_at": "2024-08-07T00:21:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb0807093f0", "title": "Auditing my social media use and information consumption", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/08/05/auditing-my-social-media-use-and-information-consumption/", "published_at": "2024-08-05T03:12:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb080f77bb8", "title": "The reason why you’re so tired at work: Context switching", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/08/04/the-reason-why-youre-so-tired-at-work-context-switching/", "published_at": "2024-08-04T02:45:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb08193a55a", "title": "Weekend Tales #6: The Paris Olympics fried my brain", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/08/02/weekend-tales-6-the-paris-olympics-fried-my-brain/", "published_at": "2024-08-02T06:11:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb081ccdd4e", "title": "Learning Chinese vocabulary as a headless chicken", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/07/12/learning-chinese-vocabulary-as-a-headless-chicken/", "published_at": "2024-07-12T11:43:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb0829e1b08", "title": "I once tolerated Kuala Lumpur. Now, I love it", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/07/05/i-once-tolerated-kuala-lumpur-now-i-love-it/", "published_at": "2024-07-05T05:21:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca81-7101-91aa-1fb082ba54de", "title": "A secret Pentagon campaign to spread vaccine disinformation has come to light", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/06/21/a-secret-pentagon-campaign-to-spread-vaccine-disinformation-has-come-to-light/", "published_at": "2024-06-21T00:54:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca82-72bf-8b42-4b2edb9b10f3", "title": "The cold war in Chinese fandom spaces", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/06/20/the-cold-war-in-chinese-fandom-spaces/", "published_at": "2024-06-20T01:06:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca82-72bf-8b42-4b2edc04e5ff", "title": "The tricky art of learning Chinese characters", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/06/14/the-tricky-art-of-learning-chinese-characters/", "published_at": "2024-06-14T12:01:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c530-ca82-72bf-8b42-4b2edc315ebe", "title": "Substack round-up: Six newsletters from Asia", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/06/01/substack-round-up-six-newsletters-from-asia/", "published_at": "2024-06-01T04:43:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a26a88b9", "title": "So I’m learning Mandarin", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/05/17/so-im-learning-mandarin/", "published_at": "2024-05-17T12:41:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a323f617", "title": "Weekend Tales #5 My ambition is to have an unextraordinary life", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/05/10/weekend-tales-5-my-ambition-is-to-have-an-unextraordinary-life/", "published_at": "2024-05-10T14:04:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a40f86d8", "title": "3 Body Problem is a bit of a problem", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/04/26/3-body-problem-is-a-bit-of-a-problem/", "published_at": "2024-04-26T02:12:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a43decdf", "title": "Comprehensible input and creating my own Mandarin-learning curriculum", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/04/25/comprehensible-input-and-creating-my-own-mandarin-learning-curriculum/", "published_at": "2024-04-25T01:00:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a51e1b09", "title": "I think I read a racist thing from Canada this morning", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/04/24/i-think-i-read-a-racist-thing-from-canada-this-morning/", "published_at": "2024-04-24T00:24:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a51eda40", "title": "3 Body Problem vs Three-Body", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/04/20/3-body-problem-vs-three-body/", "published_at": "2024-04-20T09:24:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a5537589", "title": "Sweeping tombs, eating food and waving at the dead", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/04/07/sweeping-tombs-eating-food-and-waving-at-the-dead/", "published_at": "2024-04-07T13:47:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a5891372", "title": "Why a lot of my content is now gated", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/03/31/why-a-lot-of-my-content-is-now-gated/", "published_at": "2024-03-31T04:24:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a63a75bb", "title": "Have you enjoyed some Chinese propaganda lately? I did.", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/03/30/have-you-enjoyed-some-chinese-propaganda-lately-i-did/", "published_at": "2024-03-30T02:16:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a7224ae4", "title": "Creating a Mandarin-learning routine for myself", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/03/19/creating-a-mandarin-learning-routine-for-myself/", "published_at": "2024-03-19T01:27:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a7f50f5d", "title": "I speak four languages. That’s just being Malaysian.", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/03/15/i-speak-four-languages-thats-just-being-malaysian/", "published_at": "2024-03-15T10:41:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a83f6050", "title": "Sad Stories of Asian People", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/03/04/sad-stories-of-asian-people/", "published_at": "2024-03-04T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a8f118a7", "title": "Hello from a banana", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/02/24/hello-from-a-banana/", "published_at": "2024-02-24T03:04:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a90c95fa", "title": "My yearly negotiations with Mum about Chinese New Year cooking", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/02/14/my-yearly-negotiations-with-mum-about-chinese-new-year-cooking/", "published_at": "2024-02-14T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-d40f-7169-bcc5-ef49a939ee80", "title": "Thoughts on Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladmir Putin", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/02/11/thoughts-on-tucker-carlsons-interview-with-vladmir-putin/", "published_at": "2024-02-10T22:46:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-fcde-7264-a280-3df2f63df5bc", "title": "Chinese New Year auntie uncle time", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/02/09/chinese-new-year-auntie-uncle-time/", "published_at": "2024-02-09T00:41:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-fcde-7264-a280-3df2f68ad704", "title": "The tools and courses I’m using to learn Mandarin (free and paid)", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/02/01/the-tools-and-courses-im-using-to-learn-mandarin-free-and-paid/", "published_at": "2024-02-01T11:46:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-fcde-7264-a280-3df2f7205a4b", "title": "Weekend Tales #4: My focus in 2024 is ‘beauty’", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/01/12/2024-beauty/", "published_at": "2024-01-12T11:17:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-fcde-7264-a280-3df2f78eeb4f", "title": "Why I am learning Mandarin in 2024", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2024/01/02/why-i-am-learning-mandarin-in-2024/", "published_at": "2024-01-02T13:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-fcde-7264-a280-3df2f798639f", "title": "2023 Recap: Concepts and discoveries that made the year better for me", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2023/12/29/2023-recap-concepts-and-discoveries-that-made-the-year-better-for-me/", "published_at": "2023-12-29T12:37:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-fcde-7264-a280-3df2f87a75a3", "title": "Year-end reflections and how I do them", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2023/12/28/how-to-do-a-year-end-reflection/", "published_at": "2023-12-28T00:20:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-fcde-7264-a280-3df2f8c3f10e", "title": "Now on Substack – elitism, condescension and dogpiles", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2023/12/03/now-on-substack-elitism-condescension-and-dogpiles/", "published_at": "2023-12-03T03:30:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-fcde-7264-a280-3df2f9356bfa", "title": "The Vigil at the Manor (Part 4/7)", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2023/11/27/the-vigil-at-the-manor-part-4-7/", "published_at": "2023-11-27T02:34:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-fcde-7264-a280-3df2f98d6c1f", "title": "When Sunbirds built a nest in my balcony", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2023/11/22/when-sunbirds-built-a-nest-in-my-balcony/", "published_at": "2023-11-22T01:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-fcde-7264-a280-3df2f9abef62", "title": "The vigil at the manor (Part 3/7)", "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2023/11/19/the-vigil-at-the-manor-part-3-7/", "published_at": "2023-11-19T03:32:57+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

As a writer, AI has now given me access to services that were too expensive beforeoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
A day in a life of the AI-assisted technical content writeroriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
Excited and exhausted: My honest take about life as a techwriter in the AI ageoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
My article was No.1 on Hacker Newsoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2026
How to Build Your Own AI Writing Pipeline (No Paid Tools)original ↗
15 Aug 2026
Being a minority on social media sucks sometimesoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2026
Pangram in Substack? I’m so excited for the AI witch huntsoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
On the matter of Greek erasure in Christopher Nolan’s The Odysseyoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
July 2026: Lestat, OpenCode and the art of restingoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
The Last Generation of ‘Bananas’? How Malaysian Chinese Identity Is Transformingoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2026
The key to my successful weekly planning system: Time blocking with Google Calendar and Google Tasksoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2026
Substack writers, you need a website!original ↗
10 Jun 2026
Linkblog: Dwelling on the Internetoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
Why the global south is grateful for Deepseekoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2026
Of abandoning mother tongues and shameoriginal ↗
31 May 2026
Writing with AI isn’t always generating entire novels with a promptoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
Why I use Mistral as my personal paid AI serviceoriginal ↗
2 May 2026
Reading Pu Songling’s “The Haunted House”original ↗
3 Apr 2026
March 2026: What I’m doing noworiginal ↗
29 Mar 2026
Linkblog March 26, 2026: On typingoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
How I conduct UX copy reviewsoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
What I learned in Malaysian history classoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2026
Linkblog March 12, 2026: Platform bluesoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
The Writing Community’s AI Panicoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2026
Linkblog Feb 26, 2026: The Chinese issueoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2026
Matt Chung: Building communities – one post at a timeoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2026
Sometimes things disappear and reappear mysteriously in my life … and I’m kinda freaked out by itoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
Is it me, or is it just more difficult to find good fiction these days?original ↗
21 Jan 2026

2025

Hong Kong Wang Fuk Court Fire: Thoughts & linksoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2025
How to use Notebook Navigator (Obsidian Community plug-in)original ↗
25 Nov 2025
Does AI help you work  faster or is  it just hype?original ↗
31 Oct 2025
Conversations about AI are different in Asiaoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2025
After Charlie Kirk: Reflections from Malaysiaoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2025
My blood will spill on this landoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
Should we bring up China’s Nanjing Massacre today?original ↗
20 Aug 2025
Guide to writing fiction with AIoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2025
Fiction writing: What tasks will I outsource to AI?original ↗
13 Aug 2025
Digital decluttering: Marie Kondo-ing the content I consumeoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2025
What my AI fiction writing experiment taught me about my creative processoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2025
What if using AI to write fiction isn’t an evil act?original ↗
23 Jul 2025
I support deleting your second brainoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2025
La Cocina’s Spandian touchoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2025
The cognitive debt of using AI to write essaysoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2025
Are you a loudcaster?original ↗
7 Jun 2025
iTOR: A cosy Western-Malaysian fusion cafeoriginal ↗
23 May 2025
Pushback against digital gardens?original ↗
13 May 2025
Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?original ↗
10 May 2025
My new productivity workflow using email and Trellooriginal ↗
4 Apr 2025
Tsunami ghosts, anti-LinkedIn post, digital gardens, Obsidian discoveries, NPCs and moreoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2025
The return of the sunbirdsoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2025
The COVID-19 lockdown diariesoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2025
Personal Financeoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2025
My 15-minute city lifestyle in Malaysia!original ↗
4 Feb 2025
How I use social media, and why Mastodon is still No.1 for meoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2025
Public transportation in my neighbourhood and I have electric car envyoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2025
Gearing up for Chinese New Year with a day of shopping at Sunway Pyramidoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2025
I am social media burned outoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2025

2024

Weekend Tales #8: My favourite things of 2024original ↗
31 Dec 2024
My experience ‘going paid’ on Subastack in 2024original ↗
28 Dec 2024
Weekend Tales #7: Year ends and bodice rippers in the desertoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2024
I love Malaysia. I also resent it.original ↗
17 Sept 2024
5 more reads from Asiaoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2024
Malaysians stunned by Kuala Lumpur sinkholeoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2024
That time when I lived in a haunted houseoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2024
The circle of competence and our information dietoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2024
What’s happening in Britain?original ↗
7 Aug 2024
Auditing my social media use and information consumptionoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2024
The reason why you’re so tired at work: Context switchingoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2024
Weekend Tales #6: The Paris Olympics fried my brainoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2024
Learning Chinese vocabulary as a headless chickenoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2024
I once tolerated Kuala Lumpur. Now, I love itoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2024
A secret Pentagon campaign to spread vaccine disinformation has come to lightoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2024
The cold war in Chinese fandom spacesoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2024
The tricky art of learning Chinese charactersoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2024
Substack round-up: Six newsletters from Asiaoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2024
So I’m learning Mandarinoriginal ↗
17 May 2024
Weekend Tales #5 My ambition is to have an unextraordinary lifeoriginal ↗
10 May 2024
3 Body Problem is a bit of a problemoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2024
Comprehensible input and creating my own Mandarin-learning curriculumoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2024
I think I read a racist thing from Canada this morningoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2024
3 Body Problem vs Three-Bodyoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2024
Sweeping tombs, eating food and waving at the deadoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2024
Why a lot of my content is now gatedoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2024
Have you enjoyed some Chinese propaganda lately? I did.original ↗
30 Mar 2024
Creating a Mandarin-learning routine for myselforiginal ↗
19 Mar 2024
I speak four languages. That’s just being Malaysian.original ↗
15 Mar 2024
Sad Stories of Asian Peopleoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2024
Hello from a bananaoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2024
My yearly negotiations with Mum about Chinese New Year cookingoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2024
Thoughts on Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladmir Putinoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2024
Chinese New Year auntie uncle timeoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2024
The tools and courses I’m using to learn Mandarin (free and paid)original ↗
1 Feb 2024
Weekend Tales #4: My focus in 2024 is ‘beauty’original ↗
12 Jan 2024
Why I am learning Mandarin in 2024original ↗
2 Jan 2024

2023

2023 Recap: Concepts and discoveries that made the year better for meoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2023
Year-end reflections and how I do themoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2023
Now on Substack – elitism, condescension and dogpilesoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2023
The Vigil at the Manor (Part 4/7)original ↗
27 Nov 2023
When Sunbirds built a nest in my balconyoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2023
The vigil at the manor (Part 3/7)original ↗
19 Nov 2023
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